Cohen’s pictures themselves, as you turn the page, carry a similar sense of anticipation. They capture that period, before attempts to sanitise the street life of the city, when New York’s more desperate characters seemed to emerge from the subways in an endless stream. The ordinary faces that Cohen found, from Manhattan to the Bowery to Coney Island, demand a soundtrack from the Velvet Underground and a shot at fame at the Factory. - Tim Adams
Cohen’s pictures themselves, as you turn the page, carry a similar sense of anticipation. They capture that period, before attempts to sanitise the street life of the city, when New York’s more desperate characters seemed to emerge from the subways in an endless stream. The ordinary faces that Cohen found, from Manhattan to the Bowery to Coney Island, demand a soundtrack from the Velvet Underground and a shot at fame at the Factory. - Tim Adams